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Cats Meow Page 1 of 8 If you were forwarded this CATS Updates email, subscribe here. In addition to the Automatically Yours CATS Series Summer-Fall 2007 publication, Baker & Taylor monitors 100’s of children’s and teen series. Below are series that are newly Publisher News available by CATS and can be Automatically Yours: Material Reviews In the Library... 24/7: Science Behind the Scenes: Forensic Science, Franklin Watts, nonfiction, grades Top Ten Titles: 5-7: LIB series ID 0004596672, $26.00; PAP series ID 0004598900, $7.95. Adventures of Riley, Eaglemont Press, fiction, grades PreK-3: HRD series id 0004598942, Books $15.95. Graphic Novels & Manga Avatar, Tokyopop, graphic novel, grades 4-8: PAP series id 0004598439, $7.99. Spanish Beast Quest, Scholastic, fiction, grades 2-5: PAP s eries 0004598215 , $4.99. CD Music Beauty Pop, Viz, graphic novel, grades 4-10: PAP series id 0004599049, $8.99. DVD CatKid, Scholastic, fiction, grades PreK-3: PAP series ID 00004598207, $3.99. Video Games Drama Club, Penguin, fiction, grades 7-10: PAP series id 0004598975, $7.99. Drama High, Dafina, fiction, grades 10-12: PAP series id 00 0 4599072, $9.99. Conference Notes Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, HarperCollins, fiction, grades 3-7: PAP series Interview id 00044599023, $6.99. Kingfisher Knowledge, Larousse Kingfisher , nonfiction, grades 4-7: PAP series ID Feature Titles 0004596557, $8.95. Pippi Previously offered series that have ceased, or are complete, and will no longer be available Longstocking for automatic shipment: Astrid Lindgren Viking, All Grown Up (8x8), Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades PreK-3: PAP series id 00005726195. September 2007 Blue's Clues Ready-to-Read, Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades PreK-1: PAP series id 000 9870670062768, 5402813. HRD, $25.00 Great Cities of the World, World Almanac, nonfiction, grades 5-9: series id 00005406392. buy now Henry and Mudge, Philomel, fiction, grades 1-2: PAP series id 0001966498. Hispanic-American Biographies, Heinemann/Raintree , nonfiction, grades 5-9: SAL series id 0000546184. Maisy Big, Love Letters, Simon Pulse, fiction, 7-12: PAP series id 0005725676. Maisy Small Milly Molly, National Book Network, fiction, grades PreK-2 PAP series ID 0000544015. Lucy Cousins Totally Spies Chapter Books, Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades 4-8: PAP series ID Candlewick 0005725437. Press, August 2007 Publisher News buy now 9780763634063, HRD, $15.99 • American Girl gets a fresh face this fall with the addition of Julie Albright. This American Girl lives in San Francisco in the 1970’s and faces many of life’s challenges of today’s girls. Before I Die Her parents are recently divorced and she has to adapt to a move to a new neighborhood. Jenny Dowhham Luckily these issues will be authored by the ever-popular Megan McDonald, of Judy Moody David Fickling fame. Julie will make her debut this September with six novels, which are available to order Books, individually as well as in an American Girl hardcover floor display: American Girl Julie 42- September 2007 copy Floor Display (9781593694227, HRD, $543.90) 9780385751582, LIB, $18.99 • The Association of Educational Publishers has recently awarded Picture Window Books and Compass Point Books with distinguished achievement awards. Series such as Way to buy now Be!: Manners and Exploring Science: Life Science were highlighted. Visit www.aepweb.org for full details. Titles include: Evolution, Me & Manners in the Library ( 9781404831520, SAL, $23.93) Other Freaks of DNA: The Master Molecule of Life (9780756516178, SAL, $26.60) Nature Robin Brande Alfred A. Knopf, • HarperCollins Publishers recently announced that Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired the August 2007 feature film rights to the seven-book fantasy series, Septimus Heap. This bestselling 9780375943492, series marks UK author Angie Sage’s first foray into middle-grade fantasy. LIB, $18.99 buy now Material Reviews file://G:\E-Marketing\INSTITUTIONAL\CATS Meow\2007\August 2007\catsmeow_aug07... 8/7/2007 Cats Meow Page 2 of 8 Toy Boat Picture Book Children's Parenting Teen Randall de Sève Philomel, September 2007 9780399243745, buy now HRD, $16.99 Turtle Summer: A I'm a Mom! Now Journal for My Percy the Park Conference Notes What? Into the Wild Daughter Keeper: A Classic Treasury Visit Baker & Taylor at the following conferences: Music Video Essential Spoken Word 8/8, Pacific Northwest Library Association 9/12, Wyoming Library Assn. 9/20, Kentucky Library Assn. 10/3, Missouri Library Association Alter This!: Radical 10/10, Illinois Library Little Mo' McCoury Association Ideas for Saint Iggy 10/10, Ohio Library Council Transforming Shredderman 10/11, Iowa Library Books Into Art Rules! Association 10/14, New England Library Association 10/15, Pennsylvania Library In the Library Association 10/16, North Carolina Library Paw Prints, the new CATS prebind program, was recently launched at the Annual ALA Association conference in Washington DC. Hundreds of librarians from around the country were able to 10/17, Georgia COMO XIX attend presentations which highlighted this new, lifetime guaranteed binding. Mousepads with 10/24, NEMA/NLA Fall Paw Prints logos were handed out, and if you didn’t get yours let us know so we can have Conference one delivered to you. Congratulations to the winner of the raffle, Anne Tonissen of Mallard 10/26, California Library Creek HS in NC, who won an iPod for attending the Paw Prints presentations! Association Paw Prints is a prebind program that focuses on popular, high-circulating titles for children and teen collections. Books are guaranteed to be Baker Bound and Taylor Tough, with bindings that exceed library bound standards. Jackets are attractive and have a Paw Prints identifiable logo on the back. Popular series, authors, and genres will be prebound, one of the most popular being manga and graphic novels. Libraries can find all the Paw Print titles by searching on any Baker & Taylor database for Paw Prints as the publisher. If a requested title isn’t available in the Paw Prints format please inform CATS by emailing [email protected]. If you didn’t receive your Paw Prints mousepad, please email us at [email protected] with your name, library, and address. We’ll have one delivered to you! Lynne Cheney is the author of five A. It’s hard to choose, but Robin Glasser and I did name books for children: the New York Times the book after Abigail Adams, and she is a very appealing bestsellers America: A Patriotic Primer, A figure. Born in days when women weren’t expected to go is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing to school, couldn’t own property, and couldn’t vote, she was American Women, When Washington smart and self-aware enough to know that things should be Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime different and to tell her husband John to “remember the Story for Young Patriots, and most ladies” when he was making laws for our new nation. recently Our Fifty States (9780689867170, SAL, $18.99). She is a Q. Now that you’ve worked with Robin Preiss Glasser senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former on several books, has the collaboration process chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives evolved or changed at all? in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Vice President Richard B. Cheney. A long-time advocate of teaching America’s history A. We work very well together and have since the to children, Mrs. Cheney recently shared her passion for beginning, but our experience on previous books means history and good books with the CATS staff. that we understand each other very well by now. Really, I sometimes think she can read my mind! What a joy to Q. What inspired you to write your first children’s collaborate with a person of such talent. I can’t imagine book? whom else I could have worked with on a project as big and complicated as Our 50 States. A. My grandchildren, first and foremost. When you have little kids in your life, it’s fun to communicate with them in Q. Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America different ways about things important to you, and history is features numerous historical sites, landmarks, and very important to me. natural treasures. Do you have a favorite American file://G:\E-Marketing\INSTITUTIONAL\CATS Meow\2007\August 2007\catsmeow_aug07... 8/7/2007 Cats Meow Page 3 of 8 landmark? Q. From where do you get the ideas for your books? A. There are so many, how can I choose? If absolutely A. I’m not sure. I think they just kind of germinate and then forced I’d say the Statue of Liberty, but then there’s Mount one day blossom. Sometimes the title, or some version of it Rushmore and the Golden Gate Bridge and all the natural comes first. That’s the way it was with America, which I first wonders. Niagara Falls, the Tetons, the list goes on and on. thought of as A is for America. And I began jotting down Aren’t we lucky to live in such an amazing country? ideas for what B, C, and D might be for on scraps of paper. Q. Proceeds from your books help to fund the James Q. Your books make history exciting to children. Were Madison Book Award, given each July to the book that you inspired by any books that you read as a child, or best represents excellence in bringing knowledge and read to your children, or grandchildren? understanding of American history to children in elementary school and to middle-schoolers. Why was A. I love to read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown it important to you to help establish such an award? and Clement Hurd to my little grandchildren and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein to all of them.